Spocom Anaheim 2013 Coverage…Part 1…

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In the increasingly saturated Southern California car show scene, timing is everything. When and where you have your event can quickly determine whether or not people will show up. A couple of years ago, things were very different; quality of cars and the quality of production were key factors in a show’s success. Today…not so much. To be fair, the top tier events in our country are successful because of their ability to produce a great product but these days, shows and meets are so commonplace and everyone is trying to throw a car show because they want a piece of the proverbial pie. Everyone is a “hustler” now and sees that there is money to be made in the industry so they attempt to put an event together on their own. Social media makes up for a lot of the work that people used to do in an attempt…

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When the Man or Woman “Behind the Book” Stifles Sales

The Misfortune Of Knowing

In an effort to discourage letters from young fans, the curmudgeonly children’s book author E.B. White wrote in 1961:

When I was a child, I liked books, but an author to me was a mythical being. I never dreamed of getting in touch with one, and no teacher ever suggested that I do so. The book was the thing, not the man behind the book. (emphasis added).

 It’s much easier for 21st Century readers to know the men or women “behind the book[s]” than it was for White’s mid-20th Century fans. Through social media, we can interact more easily with our favorite authors and consume news about their lives in addition to consuming their books. Whether rightly or wrongly, factors external to the book like authors’ reputations — their perceived personality and even their politics — often outweigh factors intrinsic to the book when we choose what books to…

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NanoSatisfi will let anyone conduct experiments in space for $125

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If you were handed the controls to a satellite, what would you do? Track meteors? Photograph hurricanes? For as low as $125, not-for-profit startup ArduSat will put anyone behind the controls of its miniature satellites to pursue any project they can dream up. The same team has since launched a parent company, NanoSatisfi, that brings space-based data to enterprise clients using the same satellites.

Three and a half weeks before it launches its first satellites, NanoSatisfi announced today that it has picked up $300,000 in additional funding from personal robotics investment company Grishin Robotics. The money will go toward hiring employees in hopes of bringing on “exceptional talent on board now rather than later,” according to CEO Peter Platzer.

Unlike most emerging commercial satellite companies, NanoSatisfi is not focused on taking images of the Earth. Platzer said the 4-inch-wide cubes are equipped with a camera, but they are better…

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Sprint, IBM want to connect your phone to your car through the cloud

Gigaom

For the last year Sprint(s s) has been assembling a team of impressive technology partners to help build its Velocity connected car platform, but starting Wednesday it’s bringing in a ringer. IBM(s ibm) is working with Sprint to build a suite of cloud-powered services linking the smartphone and automobile together.

Sprint is tapping into a technology called MessageSight emerging from IBM’s new Mobile First strategy. MessageSight functions as a management system for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, coordinating data from any number of sensors, devices and appliances so they can be used to create interlinked services and applications. In Sprint’s case, it’s using MessageSight to power several telematics apps that can be accessed from a smartphone.

As with other vehicle telematics platform, Velocity can turn a smartphone into a remote control that could, for instance, remotely unlock a car’s doors or start its engine. But IBM and Sprint are building…

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Artist Sandra Turnbull: Sense and Sensuality

Bird of the Day: White-eyed Oriole (Outskirts of Bangalore, Karnataka)

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Outskirts of Bangalore, Karnataka

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